Russia in the Asia-Pacific

The program is dedicated to Russia’s increasingly important relationships with countries in the Asia-Pacific—a region which is a locomotive of the global economy—and places special emphasis on China. The program focuses on such issues as the development of Russia’s Far East, the rapprochement between Russia and China, the roles of the two countries in the process of energy and economic integration in the region, and the influence and impact of China’s rising profile.

Conventional wisdom in Washington ignores the degree to which shortsighted U.S. policies are pushing Russia and China closer together. Now would be a good time for U.S. policymakers to rethink a policy that antagonizes both of the United States’ principal geopolitical rivals and to think more creatively about how to manage a new era of increased competition among great powers.

Chinese participation in Vostok-2018 is groundbreaking. It sends a powerful message about the evolving relationship between the great Eurasian powers, which just a couple of decades ago viewed each other as adversaries.

The summit of Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un in Singapore brought the Korean peninsula closer to peace, but it was more about symbolism than substance. Its most important outcome is to bring North Korea out of diplomatic isolation—something that is welcome to both China and Russia.

The necessity of introducing cyberspace regulation on the global level is widely discussed by governments, business representatives, and experts. Carnegie Moscow Center hosted a seminar to discuss these issues.

Setting aside the shortcomings of the Belt and Road concept, the “OBOR hype’ around the world points to a real and fundamental trend — the ascent of China as a truly global economic and military power.

Carnegie Moscow Center hosted a seminar on U.S. policy in the Indo-Pacific region under the Donald Trump administration and the new challenges it might bring to the system of checks and balances in regional security.